Published: April 2016
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Let there be light (bulbs) and public intellectuals, comedy, overnight walks, and cupcakes for a cause—scenes from the past six weeks.
March 18: Peace Corps executive director Carrie Hessler-Radelet and U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III of Massachusetts (whose great-uncle President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in March 1961), spoke in the Heights Room at a celebration of the volunteer program’s 55th anniversary. Current Peace Corps volunteer Anne Gillian Freedman ’13 addressed the audience via Skype, from Peru.
Photograph: Lee Pellegrini
March 19: Maura Lester McSweeney ’17 (seated, center) was awarded the 2016 Archbishop Oscar A. Romero Scholarship, which provides up to $25,000 of senior-year tuition to a junior who has “demonstrated superior achievement, extracurricular leadership, community service, and involvement with the Hispanic/Latino Community.” McSweeney’s parents, Anne McSweeney ’79 and Mark Lester, are seated at left. At right is her roommate, Jacquelyn Andalcio ’17. In line to congratulate McSweeney are (from left) fellow juniors Maria Fernanda Castillo, Danielle Harrington, Kim Zakka, and Alexandra Quiñónez.
Photograph by Justin Knight
March 22: Paul Farmer, physician and cofounder of Partners in Health, delivered the inaugural lecture of the University’s Park Street Corporation Speaker Series in Health, Humanities, and Ethics. His topic was “Universal Health Care? From Slogan to Mantra.” The event took place in Robsham Theater.
Photograph by Frank Curran
March 22: At a Lynch School of Education (LSOE) symposium in the Murray Room, Boston’s Superintendent of Public Schools Tommy Chang talked about his first 100 days on the job and joined LSOE professors (from left) Maria Estela Brisk and Mary Walsh for a discussion. Also on the panel were Catherine Wong, director of LSOE’s urban outreach initiatives, and Abidemi Oyedele ’04, M.Ed.’07, Ed.D.’12, leadership effectiveness director of the Lynch Leadership Academy, Boston College’s training program for local principals and aspiring principals.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
March 23: Gregory Fulgione, P’86 (wearing hat), with his arm around Eagle EMS volunteer Nicholas Favazza ’18, one of three student EMTs who helped save Fulgione’s life when he went into cardiac arrest during a football game in Alumni Stadium last fall. Also in attendance at the event in the Heights Room honoring first responders were (standing, from left) EMS volunteers Andrew Bourque ’18 and Kevin Zirko ’16; and members of the Fulgione family, including (standing) Lynne-Ellen (Fulgione) Garcia ’86.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
March 29: The Boston College Chorale performed four songs, including the Irish national anthem in Irish, at a presentation of music, dance, and verse held in Gasson Hall’s Irish Room to commemorate the Easter Rising of 1916. Pictured (from left) are Jacob Harcar ’17 (partially obscured), James Breen ’17, Andrew Goodwin ’18, Abigail Kopec ’16, Michael Rolincik ’16, Thomas Hull ’18, and Kyung won Seo ’17.
Photograph by Justin Knight
March 29: Joy Haywood Moore ’81, H’10, associate vice president of alumni relations, led a roundtable discussion in Vanderslice Hall’s Cabaret Room as part of “Rise,” a mentoring program that pairs small groups of senior women with female faculty and staff. At left is Leslie Carandang ’16, and at right Anne Flick ’16.
Photograph by Caitlin Cunningham
March 31: BIRDS (Boston Inter-Religious Dialogue of Students), a student organization at the School of Theology and Ministry (STM), hosted local chaplains—from left, Rabbi Elyse Winick, Jewish chaplain at Brandeis University; Swami Tyagananda, Hindu chaplain at Harvard; and Amira Quraishi, Muslim chaplain at Wellesley College—in the STM chapel for a conversation on “What I Cherish about my Faith.”
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
April 1: At the ninth annual Boston College Relay for Life, an all-night fundraiser for the American Cancer Society held in the Flynn Recreation Complex, cancer survivors—from left, Zack Skarka ’15, Tricia Desrocher, P’18, and Evan Smith ’16—led the first lap. Some 1,500 members of the Boston College community participated, raising more than $133,000.
Photograph by Frank Curran
April 7: The Lynch School of Education (LSOE) held its annual Nelson Chair Roundtable, a “think tank” gathering of local community-support leaders. In the Heights Room, from left, are LSOE professor and roundtable chair Anderson Franklin; Kathryn Lembo, president and CEO of South Bay Community Services (back to camera); Sheena Collier, director of the Boston Promise Initiative; Juan Leyton, executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative; and Mauricio Torre, youth and family development director of SBCS.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
April 8: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke in Robsham Theater during a two-day conference on economic inequality, sponsored by the Jesuit Institute. The conference featured presentations by scholars from colleges and universities including Brandeis, Brown, the University of Chicago, the Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Duquesne, Emmanuel, Fordham, Georgetown, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Northeastern, Notre Dame, St. John’s, Tufts, Virginia Commonwealth, and Yale, as well as Boston College.
Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert
April 14: Capping a daylong symposium on “The Calling of a Public Intellectual,” Howard Gardner, the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (left), joined political scientist Alan Wolfe, founding director of Boston College’s Boise Center for Religion and American Public Life, in Gasson 100 for a public conversation. The event, hosted by the Boisi Center, was held to celebrate the research and writings of Wolfe, on subjects ranging from moral freedom to “The Transformation of American Religion.” Wolfe is retiring at the end of the semester.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
April 15: Mary Jane Charette, who helped raise 237 foster children over a period of 40 years, and her adopted son Eric Charette, MSW’16, participated, along with some of Eric’s siblings, in a panel discussion on “Adoption and Foster Care: Re-envisioning the Family,” in Higgins 521. The event was moderated by Adam Pertman, president and founder of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, and was sponsored by the School of Social Work.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
April 15: Raymond Santos ’16, a member of the undergraduate comedy troupe Committee for Creative Enactments, performed in Robsham Theater during “Stand Up for a Cause,” an evening of humor hosted by the Carroll School of Management’s Jenks Leadership Program. Performers included members of the student groups Ready Set Punchline, Shovelhead, and Asinine, as well as Boston-based comedian Dana Jay Bein ’01. Proceeds from the evening went to the national organization Prevent Child Abuse America.
Photograph by Peter Julian ’16
April 20: The topic of the School of Theology and Ministry’s Dean’s Colloquium on Religion and Public Culture was “The Theology of Pope Francis: Real Reform or Window Dressing?” Participants in the Heights Room included, from near left, Mark Massa, SJ, dean of the School of Theology and Ministry (STM) and event moderator; STM professor of moral theology James Bretzke, SJ (partially obscured); Susannah Heschel, professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College; and theology professor Kristin E. Heyer.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
April 22: At an Earth Day display on Stokes Lawn, John MacDonald, energy manager in Facilities Management, talked with neighbors of the University about next-generation light bulbs.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
April 26: In the McElroy Commons kitchen, Tim Fonseca, executive pastry chef of Boston College Dining Services, instructed members of the undergraduate Baking Club in the art of cupcake decoration before a Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer fundraiser. Clockwise, from left: Daniella Rizos ’18, Michelle Peffen ’18 (partially obscured), Mary Ladesic ’18, Hannah Ladesic ’18, Yoonseo Zoh ’17, Helen Au ’18, Dining Services director Elizabeth Emery, and Victoria Rizos ’18.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini
April 26: In all, 11 students decorated more than 300 cupcakes, which sold out in the Chestnut Hill, Newton, and Brighton campus dining halls on April 27. Proceeds went to the Dana Farber Foundation for Breast Cancer. The sign atop each cupcake was edible.
Photograph by Lee Pellegrini